Massage device.



L. J. WIDNESS.

MASSAGE DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 20. 1915.

Patgnted Sept. 12, 1916.

ji id By 7% A 7TORIVEYS m t mam LAJENCE J. WIDNESS, OF NEW YORK, M. Y.

MASSAGE DEVICE.

Specification t Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. t2, tw lti.

, Application filed October-20,1915. Serial No. 91.

resident of New York, in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Massage Devices, of which the following is a speclficatlon.

My invention relates to massage devices,

and, the main object thereof is to provide a device which permits both kneading and suction operations at the same time whereby a heightened blood circulation is induced on the surface massaged in an instantaneous and painless manner.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, 0f which the accompanying drawings form a part. in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views. and in which Figure 1 is a side view of my invention, partly broken away to show a detail of the construction: and F ig. :2 is a view of the op erative end thereof.

My invention consists of a body 3 of solid material. such as wood, rubber. celluloid, metal, etc. having a handle 1': connected therewith or formed integral therewith, the lower end of said body being formed on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the handle and body to provide a bearing surface for a plurality of flexible suction cups 5.- These cups are relatively small in diameter, and are made of yielding or elastic material, such as rubber. which permits of the cups being collapsed but which immediately returns to normal position when permitted to do so.

In the use of my device the open ends of the cups are forced against the skin and suflicient pressure exerted on the body 3 to partially collapse the cups and thus to force the air out of the cups. after which the handle may be swung through a circle substantially parallel to the surface being massaged. This swinging handle movement successively collapses and releases the cups, with the result that the collapsed or partially collapsed cup or cups knead the skin and the flesh thereunder and thereleased cups exert suction on the surface being massaged in their return to normal positions. In this swinging movementof the handle a slight twist thereof will cause the cups to act upon portions of the skin slightly removed from the portions last acted upon, in other words the device is walked over the surface being massaged. as opposed to sliding over the same, and all possibility of injury to skins of fine texture is thus avoided.

My invention is very simple, though highly efiicient and of relatively low cost, and itwill be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific number of the cups, nor to their arrangement, nor to the materials of which the device is constructed.

In use the double action of kneading and suction reaches the deep muscles and tissues, fills out hollows, smoothes out wrinkles, arouses the circulation of the blood, and stimulates and freshens up the face very quickly.

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A message device, comprising an unyielding body member, a plurality of separate cups of yielding elastic material thereon having their open ends disposed in a. plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said body member, and ahandle adapted to be swung through a circle to successively collapse and release the cups whereby both kneading and suction results to the surface being massaged, the closed ends of all of said cups being secured to said body member. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LAWRJENCE J. WIDNESS. Witnesses:

J. G. Larsen, PHILIP 10. B0 

